School shootings are horrible and scary, but the US is a huge country, and your kids are not likely to experience them. They’re much more likely to be hurt or killed in a car accident, but you won’t hesitate to drive them around, do you?
The healthcare situation is also horrendous overall, but if you and your family are currently healthy and you have a good job with good insurance (as software engineers tend to), then the risk to you and yours specifically may be low. If you can afford it, you also have access to higher quality of care than almost anywhere else. If I had a severe disease or got into a bad accident, I would want to be a well-to-do American with good insurance living in a major city.
> If you can afford it, you also have access to higher quality of care than almost anywhere else. If I had a severe disease or got into a bad accident, I would want to be a well-to-do American with good insurance living in a major city.
Have you tested that?
Good family friends had a baby in California. They’re both high level teachers, have been for 15 years at this point. Gets complicated, c section.
Less that 10 hours later someone comes to the bedside and says this is costing the insurance company $60k a day and they have to move to a new hospital. Now. In their own car. With no wheelchair. With a 10 hour old baby and a wife that just had a c section.
They have great health insurance, have paid premiums their entire lives.
What a scam.
Also, heaven forbid you want to take a year or two off to be with family or write a book or just live.
Also my partner currently has 18 month’s maternity leave, fully paid.
The healthcare situation is also horrendous overall, but if you and your family are currently healthy and you have a good job with good insurance (as software engineers tend to), then the risk to you and yours specifically may be low. If you can afford it, you also have access to higher quality of care than almost anywhere else. If I had a severe disease or got into a bad accident, I would want to be a well-to-do American with good insurance living in a major city.